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A post from 2020 talking about the different varieties of garlic.

What growing zone are you in? What are frost dates? Knowing this information can save you money!

One of the most confusing thing with growing plants is where to plant them so that they will actually thrive, grow, and produce. If you look at plant tags most will state if the plant likes full sun, part sun, part shade, or shade. It is important to know what kind of light requirements your yard, balcony, or deck has and what kind of light it gets in spring vs summer vs fall. Putting a shade loving plant in an area where it will receive 14+ hours of sun will doom the plan

Flowers are so versatile. They add colors to gardens and they add colors to our homes through bouquets. Flowers can also add color to beverages, food, and desserts. There are many edible flowers and the bonus is there are a lot of them that grow well in containers so you get double the benefits: color outside and color on your food. When choosing flowers to eat make sure they are edible and that they haven't been sprayed with chemicals. Make sure to give the flowers a go

An older post from 2020 detailed the complicated process of ordering seeds for my 3 acre plus garden and patch.

At LP Farm Store a variety of winter squash is grown. This is an older post from 2019. New squashes have been added in 2025.

I grow many different varieties of tomatoes.  Romas, slicers, heirlooms, and cherries.  Romas are meatier and less juicy.  They are used for canning, making juice, and sauces.  I grow red, pink, black/purple, yellow, orange, green, and speckled/striped.  Tomatoes are one of the best veggies.  There is so much you can do with them: tomato sandwiches, greek salads, tomato sauce, eat them raw with salt and pepper, and ........................ Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fru

An older post from 2019 giving an July update on how the gardening is growing.

This is an older post from 2019 detailing what kind of flowers I grow and future plans.

Sweet Corn and tomatoes are two of my favorite veggies. I also love Ornamental corn. My dad loves telling children that he hand paints each kernel. In Manitoba sweet corn is ready in August and Ornamental corn is ready in September. There are a few different types of corn: sweet dent flint popcorn flour pod Dent corn is what is found in fields and is used for animal feed, is a base for high-fructose corn syrup, and other things. Flint corn is often referred to as Indian C

Really, I don't cook and no I'm not starving and yes I do know how to cook. So than the question is why don't I cook? Cooking for one is not fun and having 5 cats makes cooking difficult. So what do you eat? In summer time I love Greek salad, nuked potatoes, eating raw corn on the cob, and toasted tomato sandwiches. In winter time pizza is a go to. Having a garden and loving to cook means the meals you can make is endless. If you don't have a garden, but love cooking ch

I grow very few radishes and no rutabaga.  The reason I grow radishes is to mark my carrot rows.  Carrots grow incredibly slow and radishes grow incredibly fast so it shows me where my row is.  I found radishes to be spicy, I'm not a fan of overly spicy or heat. All Recipes apparently has over 100 recipes  for radishes! The rutabaga, swede, or neep is a root vegetable that originated as a cross between the cabbage and the turnip. The roots are eaten in a variety of ways, and

I sometimes get asked what's the difference between a pumpkin and a winter squash?  I really don't have a answer to that question.  They both belong to the Cucurbita family and than they branch off into other families.  All pumpkins are winter squash: mature fruit of certain species in the genus Cucurbita.  Subspecies include pepo, moschata, argyrosperma, and maxima. Quite confusing so I just say a pumpkin is a squash!  I grow approximately 60 different varieties of pumpkin

This is an older post from 2019 describing how I garden, which is chaos gardening.